Is Gafa on your Irish Exam? Irish Week on mocks.ie continues with our discussion of this. Gafa, or Hooked as it's called in the English version, is a huge and dramatic leap from the rural West of Ireland of yesteryear of Peig. Gafa inhabits the world of well-off middle-class Dublin

We conclude our discussion of An Spailpín Fánach as part of Irish Week on mocks.ie. An Spailpín Fánach is one of five poems assigned for students to study in preparation for Irish Paper 2. Missed the previous poems we've covered? Read the blog to find out how you can catch up!

We continue our series of our analysis of 2016's Leaving Certificate examinations and what it teaches us. Aside from revision and exam prep, one of the best ways to prepare for this year’s exams is to analyse those of recent years; to look at trends and patterns set in previous exams

Following on the text and outline of our previous blog, we continue our examination of Mirror by Sylvia Plath - Personification: This poem is a personification of a mirror, with the mirror being the first person narrator. This is a figurative personification, see below

Day Three of mocks.ie's Irish week discusses An Spailpín Fánach, one of five poems assigned for students to study in preparation for this year's Leaving Certificate's Irish Paper 2. Read the translation of this poem with our summary of it.